The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-01-08

and the eighth was their dog, but either
the Arabic Of the Koran is beyond the
Sayeds, or they prefer a story of their
own. Whichever it is, there is nc
doubt of The realism of of the latter
portion OF their tale, as any one who
knows the affection the shepherds here
have for their great savage, shaggy
coated dogs and the huge sticks that
the shepherds always carry will testify.
Further on the story, however, the
worthy Sayeds get o confused still,
and they have it that the sleeperS
awoke twice-once in the time Of Haz-
rat Esa. or Christ, and again In tho
time of the prophet. The story is.
they say, that when these three men
and the shepherd awoke, they felt hum
CRY and sent II of their number to go
to the city near by, called Shahr-i-
Afsoz, to buy bread. On arrival he
found the place much altered, and the
first baker he went to refused to accept
his money. Another to whom he a,,-
piled asked him where he got hismoney
from. The man said it was his own
and from his own house. He was then
told to point out his house, but he
could not at first, and eventually rec
ognized it by a mulberry tree, and
going in he told them to dig in a GER
tain place. and there they found. sure
enough. his store, a jar full of Daki-
anus coins. The then owner of the
house protested and claimed the house
and coins as his, and eventually both
Yln V,,ny, and thp cni,, ,,,,,, %,l-o,, L.,
fore the King. When the King, who
was q Christian, heard the mans story
and found that he had been asleep for
three hundred and nine years. he
looked on the man as supernatural and
offered to resign the throne in his favor.
The mar declined, and stated that all
he wished was to be allowed to return
to his companions in the cave. The
King thereupon accompanied him.
With the King were a hawk and a dog,
and a deer being started on the road
was caught by these two and brought
in, thus making a third animal in the
party. On arrival at the cave, not only
the original six friends. the Altai
Azizan and the shepherd, but the King
and the dog and the hawk and the
deer. all went off to sleep and never
awoke again for some even hundred
years. when they were awakened by the
arrival of the Chahar Var, or the four
friends of the prophet-that is. Omar,
Osman, Abubakr and Ali, who, repeats
ing the Mohammedan creed, at once
awoke the sleepers. The latter got up.
repeated the creed and then fell asleep
again and there they still remain.
All this was told me by the Sayedsi in
the cave, and they pointed triumph
antly TO the relics in proof of their
story. Holding our lighted candles be-
tween the palings of the wooden screen,
which debars nearer approach TO the
slcepers. we were shown some clothes
on the floor. apparently a rough. COM
non sheet with a dark colored fringed
cloth above it, which was said to cover
he slecpcrs. We asked if we were
allowed to look under the cloth, but
hat, they said, was impossible, when
hey themselves, they said. knew not
what was there, One man had once
ried to look and was Immediately
truck blind; but that II we doubted
there ~(pointing in the direction) was
he dog and the deer and the hawk"
1olding the candles to the right we
ould then see indistinctly something
like dried bodies of some ami
mails propped against the wall. They
Iere very small. The first, said to be
nc dog. was about a foot in height,
nd the deer a few inches higher; but
was impossible TO say in such light
animals they We're. The bones
t the legs were visible-in fact, the
legs had fallen off, which rather
'ld against its being asleep; but the
ody seemed to be covered with dry
Kin, and yet, on the strength of these
'lics some twenty families of Sayeds
re kept in comfort, and live here OH Q
contributions of pilgrims, with. in :
EDITION, as much land as they require I
zee of any rent and ayes.-PaN Mall
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